Economics minor

The economics minor in the Department of Economics at Western Michigan University consists of a minimum of 15 credit hours of economics courses:

Six credit hours of Principles of Economics (ECON 2010 and 2020).

Nine credit hours of upper-level electives, 3000 level and above (excluding 5910, 5920 and 5980) which can be chosen from the large number of courses listed below.

Many departments and colleges require ECON 2010 and/or ECON 2020 for their major. Therefore, students in these majors are already part-way to an economics minor. Finishing out your economics minor will be easy. For example:

Business – All business students are required to take ECON 2010 and ECON 2020. Finance/commercial law students are required to take a third course above the 3000 level, and accounting majors are required to take a third course from this list (ECON 3200, ECON 3240, ECON 3450, ECON 4000, ECON 4030, ECON 4060)